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Once Upon a Cowpat: Stories from the Back Country
  

Once Upon a Cowpat: Stories from the Back Country (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Hutchins, Graham

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These days farming is a highly mechanised industry, and farmers have to be trained in a range of skills from animal husbandry to accountancy in order to survive. However, animals are much the same as they have always been, the weather is as unpredictable as ever, and country folk ...

ISBN 9781927147511
Published 4 May 2012 by Exisle Publishing
Interest Age Young Adults
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Trial by Ambush: The Prosecutions of David Bain
  

Trial by Ambush: The Prosecutions of David Bain (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Karam, Joe

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A fresh look at the trials of David Bain, presenting a fair and objective appraisal of the facts that led to his release from prison in 2009. At 7.09 a.m. on 20 June 1994, David Bain called emergency services and reported finding his entire family of five dead. A year later he wa ...

ISBN 9781869508340
Published 15 February 2012 by HarperCollins
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The Quake Year
  

The Quake Year (Paperback)

By Farrell, Fiona; Photographs by Nicholas, Juliet

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It was interesting what people in the checkout line were buying: it was all comfort food. The man in front of me had eggs, bacon, cigarettes, beer. And here we were buying pink buns. No one was buying sensible emergency rations like baked beans..." "It was just the most wonderful ...

ISBN 9781927145296
Published 9 May 2012
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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake
  

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Van Beynen, Martin

'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgeha ...

ISBN 9780143567233
Published 25 January 2012 by Penguin
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Refugee Stories: Former Refugees Living in New Zealand Share Stories of Their Lives and Journeys
 

Refugee Stories: Former Refugees Living in New Zealand Share Stories of Their Lives and Journeys (Paperback)

Edited by Hayward, Maria

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The stories in this book are all personal accounts of refugee displacement, journeys, survival and, eventually, resettlement in New Zealand.

ISBN 9781927184035
Published 24 January 2012 by Aut Centre for Refugee Educato
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Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade (Paperback)

By Hayes, Sophie

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He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all!

ISBN 9780007438884
Published 21 May 2012 by HarperCollins
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Brutal: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Little Girl's Stolen Innocence
 

Brutal: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Little Girl's Stolen Innocence (Paperback)

By Sharma, Nabila

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He was my religious teacher. I should have been able to trust him. But he made me do unspeakable things!

ISBN 9780007438495
Release Date 15 June 2012 by HarperCollins
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The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 - Where the Terror Began
  

The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 - Where the Terror Began (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Levy, Adrian; Scott-Clark, Cathy

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July 1995. Ten backpackers take a trip of a lifetime. Saving for years, they journey to the Indian Himalayas, to a place known as the Meadow. Here, at 3,000 metres, lies one of the world's most idyllic campsites: a carpet of downy grass, creeping phlox and blue irises, surrounded ...

ISBN 9780007466528
Release Date 1 June 2012 by HarperCollins
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Sydney Inc: The Murky World of Michael McGurk

Sydney Inc: The Murky World of Michael McGurk (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By McClymont, Kate; Carson, Vanda

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When Michael McGurk was gunned down in front of his son in Sydney's North Shore, nobody believed it was a random killing. In this book, investigative reporters Kate McClymont and Vanda Carson unravel the tangled web that is McGurk's life and times, and the circumstances that led ...

ISBN 9780522857818
Published 1 November 2010 by Melbourne University Press
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Vendetta: the Mafia, Judge Falcone and the Quest for Justice
 

Vendetta: the Mafia, Judge Falcone and the Quest for Justice (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Follain, John

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Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Judge Falcone's murder by the mafia.

ISBN 9781444714128
Release Date 26 June 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton
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